Earlier this month, a judge dismissed a massive infringement case filed against a list of companies including Google and Apple by Microsoft co-founder turned patent troll Paul Allen because Allen hadn’t bothered to actually list the actual products infringing upon his patents.

It wasn’t much of a victory, though, because the judge gave Allen time to resubmit his lawsuit with the infringing products listed… and now he has done so, claiming that Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, Netflix, OfficeMax and Staples are all infringing upon patent tech that he owns.

So which products fall afoul of his patents according to Allen? In Apple’s case, that’s the item-comparison functionality in iTunes, the Apple TV, the App Store and even the Dashboard. Google’s even more of a patent-infringing monster, according to Allen: he suggests that Google search, Gmail, Google Finance, Google Videos, Google Maps, Orkut, Google Books and Adsense are all infringing products.

What a joke. A bunch of patents filed by a short lived company bought out by Allen and now used to extort some of the most innovative companies in tech. I hope their legal teams put this bozo down hard.

Reader Comments

Derik

hey might as well sue china. Infringing by releasing crappy products.

Video7

I guess just living wealthy doesn’t contain enough excitement – Let’s see… what about law suits? Ya, that’s exciting. Now… who should we sue… I know! Let’s sue every company that has anything to do with tech… Is that enough? What’s the next step? Paul Allen sues everyone for using Microsoft’s OS’s. No wonder Russia is switching to Linux – And Bozo’s like this don’t hel